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Gospel Music

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https:// www.visitflorida.com/content/dam/visitflorida/en-us/images/things-to-do/arts-and-history/gospel-music-in-florida/gospel4.jpg Title: African Amerian Gospel Author: Henry Clay Title of Journal or Publication: The Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America Url/Web Address: https://www.loc.gov/collections/songs-of-america/articles-and-essays/musical-styles/ritual-and-worship/african-american-gospel Main Idea: The Gospel Music or Worship Music is a soulful type that was sang to praise the lord. Lyrics are focused in biblical themes and words of God. African American developed this genre and black pastors used this in their churches. Evidences that support the main idea: "African American Gospel music is a form of euphoric, rhythmic, spiritual music rooted in the solo and responsive church singing of the African American South. Its development coincided with -- and is germane to -- the development of rhythm and blues." "When many African A

Hip Hop Music

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https://s3.amazonaws.com/content.sitezoogle.com/u/188341/8e3c04355e40d8323a338033400c32e70184882e/original/new-t-shirt-thatshiphopmusic-com.png Title of the Text: Hip Hop Music Author/s: Greg Tate and Allan Light Title of the journal/publication: H ip-hop in the 21 st  century URL/Web Address: https://www.britannica.com/art/hip-hop/Hip-hop-in-the-21st-century Main idea: What are the elements of Hip hop? The term Hip-hop refers to a complex culture comprising four elements: deejaying, or “turntabling”; rapping, also known as “MCing” or “rhyming”; graffiti painting, also known as “graf” or “writing”; and “B-boying,” which encompasses hip-hop dance, style, and attitude, along with the sort of virile body language that philosopher Cornel West described as “postural semantics.” Hip hop considered as a synonyms of rap music Evidence/s that support/s the main idea: "The beginnings of the dancing, rapping, and deejaying components of hip-hop were bound to

Electronic Music

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https://4kwallpaper.org/wp-content/uploads/I-Love-Electronic-Music-Wallpapers005.jpg Title of the Text: Electr onic Music Author/s: Lejaren Hiller Title of journal/publication: History of Electronic music URL/WEB Address: https://www.britannica.com/art/electronic-music Main idea: What is Electronic Music?   Music involving electronic processing, such as recording and editing on tape, Electronic Music is produced from a wide variety of sound and produced by Electronic oscillators.  Electronic Music is played back through loudspeaker either alone or with combination of instrument. Evidence/s that support/s the main idea: ‘‘This pre-World War II period was accompanied by substantial experimentation with electrical and electronic devices. The most important outcome for the composer was the development of a number of electronic musical instruments (such as the Hammond organ and the  theremin ) that provided new  timbres  and that laid the technical foundati

Indie Music

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https://cmkt-image-prd.global.ssl.fastly.net/0.1.0/ps/4941118/600/400/m2/fpnw/wm0/indie-music-badge-prev-.jpg?1534968556&s=2a65b4d643e3bcdf419330f02a6aa3ac Title of the text: The World of Indie Author: Mason Robinson Title of Journals/Publication: What is Indie Music? The Sideline Sports & Culture URL Address: https://thesidelineobserver.com/2018/11/03/what-is-indie-music/ Main idea: Indie music is independent and can be classified with different kinds of genres like alternative rock, indie rock or sometimes even pop depending on the artist or the style of the song. The lyrics of this genre can usually have deeper meaning than usual. As said in the evidences artists are poetic and sometimes depressed, making indie music a little darker than common rock music. Evidences that support the main idea: “ Literally speaking, indie is used simply an abbreviation of the word ‘independent.’ This means that indie artists are those who produce music independe

Country Music

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https://brentwood-theatre.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Country-Music-Logo.png Title of the text : Country Music Author/s: Sean Dooley Title of the journal/publication: “The History of Country Music” URL/Web Address:  https://www.liveabout.com/the-history-of-country-music-934030 Main Idea: Country Music is a form of popular music originating in the rural southern U.S. Jimmie Rodgers  was the first person inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, and today he  was known as the “Father of Country Music.” Evidence/s that support/s the main idea: “The origins of country music can be found in recordings Southern Appalachian fiddle players made in the late 1910s. It wasn’t until the early ‘20s, however, that country music as a viable recorded genre took hold. The first commercial country record was made by Eck Robertson in 1922 on the Victor Records label. Vernon Dalhart had the first national country hit in 1924 with “Wreck of the Old ’97.” But most hi

Instrumental Music

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http://www.sclance.com/backgrounds/background-instrumental-music/background-instrumental-music_209969.jpg Title of the text : Instrumental Music Author/s: Kayla M. Peard Title of the journal/publication : “The Case for Instrumental Music Education: The Academic, Physical, and Social Benefits for Students”   URL/Web Address:  https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/honors/23 Main Idea: Instrumental Music can affect the mood, blood pressure and heart rate of a student. Instrumental Music can help a student to have a focus on studying her/ his lesson. Evidence/s that support/s the main idea:     “Music is an integral part of our lives. There are countless examples of how learning music affects intelligence in students, but that is not music’s only benefit. Music is an academic discipline available in schools in which students’ simultaneously develop cognitive abilities, physical abilities, and social skills. This is particularly evident in the instrumental mu

Break Beat Music

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https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5SBp8aoJP0Q/hqdefault.jpg Tile of the Text: Breakbeat Music Description Author: Greg Shawn Title of the journal/publication:  Breakbeat Style Overview URL/WEB: https://www.discogs.com/style/breakbeat  Main Idea:  Breakbeat characterized by a prominent, syncopated 4/4 rhythm constructed from break beats. Some Discogs users nevertheless use Breaks and Break beat tags on these types of records. Evidences that supports the main idea: "Break beat is a primarily UK-based style that existed alongside and quickly became infused into hardcore rave/techno music, in turn leading to faster, more complex jungle and hardcore music. Break beat is characterized by a prominent, syncopated 4/4 rhythm constructed from breakbeats—i.e., sampled drum breakdowns from rock, jazz, funk, and hip-hop music. Unlike jungle, breakbeat has very little variation or rearrangement of the drum patterns, and it is usually slower/mid-tempo, roughly 100 to 125 BPM, speed

Trap Music

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https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ibNmqXzN6BU/maxresdefault.jpg Tile of the Text: Trap Music Author: Shawn Setaro Title of the journal/publication: How trap music came to the rule world URL/WEB: https://www.complex.com/music/2018/02/how-trap-music-came-to-rule-the-world Main Idea:   What is Trap music? Trap music is a form/style of hip hop music. Trap music is everywhere.T fist emerged coming primarily from the south, a genre filled with a hard attitude that you can feel in the sound of the brass, triangle, triplet hi hats, loud kicks, snappy snares and low end 808 bass samples that are used when composing tracks. Evidence that supports the main idea: "From hip-hop to pop to EDM and beyond, the sound of trap music is everywhere. A cursory look at the Billboard charts—just this week Migos' Culture II went to No. 1—proves that.But what, if you had to explain it, is the sound of trap? What signifies “current” to someone listening to music today? The simplest answer

Classical Music

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https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS3CckO4KED0Ru98fRQXng5XzHQVM1u6YRdHOjDNlD1ERJMGZLBhQ Title of the text: Music Notes: Support Classical Music Author: Carlton Wilkinson title of the journal/publication: academic.edu Url/web adress : https://www.academia.edu/11791856/Music_Notes_Support_classical_music Main idea: Argued that expecting highly skilled musicians to play for less than what could earn in other professions and for next to nothing in many causes- amount to magical economics. Evidences that support the main idea:  "If classical music can become popular, promoters will put on more concerts and need more musicians, and musicians will be paid more. The only other alternative that is some kind of subsidy, either corporate or government, which probably is already happening to some extent." "Musicians are expecting to have more income in their professions.They are talking about the travel expenses but yet their income is

Rock Music

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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/qKbyAMQNNyVSSQfxWAwKbw2EDPoCaM44z7fQ3CY9-TZwQv1l3T-kdRiPFweb8YaFrQ Title o f the text:   The Origins and History of Rock Music Author/s:  Tim Grierson Title of journal/ publication:  liveaboutdotcom URL/ Web adress:  https://www.liveabout.com/what-is-rock-music-2898293 Main idea: What is rock music? Rock music has distorted and heavy rhythm. It is usually played by a band. Instruments is part of rock music that includes electric guitars, drums, and bass and a lyric sung by the vocalist. In rock music we need to have a contagious energy for it will drain us ones we heard and go along with it. There are many songwriters and band who are capable of doing a rock music here in the Philippines. Just like in pop music, it can also be used in different celebrations. Filipinos love to celebrate their country men achievement and they usually used this genre. They also used it when they have problems, they will let rock music drain their en

Acoustic Music

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https://image.isu.pub/091125163314-d5955dfd23ca4bff874b79d7632351fd/jpg/page_1_thumb_large.jpg Title of the text : Acoustic Features Influence Musical Choices Across Multiple Genres Author/s: Michael D. Barone,1 Jotthi Bansal,1 and Matthew H. Woolhouse2 Title of the journal/publication: NCBI Url/web adress: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5495864/ Main idea: Acoustic features, musical preference, musical genre, music downloads, musical influence, music information retrieval. Evidence that support the main idea: "Based on a large behavioral dataset of music downloads, two analyses investigate whether the acoustic features of listeners' preferred musical genres influence their choice of tracks within non-preferred, secondary musical styles. Analysis 1 identifies feature distributions for pairs of genre-defined subgroups that are distinct. Using correlation analysis, these distributions are used to test the degree of similarity between subgro

Modern Music

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https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pV9AyGsGR0Y/maxresdefault.jpg Title of the text: Modern music really does sound the same Author: Nick Collins Title of publication: The Telegraph URL/WEB Address: www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/9430338/Modern-music-really-does-sound-the-same.html Main idea: The skepticism about modern music is shared by many of the middle aged fans which found that today's hits really do all sound the same Evidences that supports the main idea: “The study was the first to conduct a large-scale measurement of "intrinsic loudness" or the volume a song is recorded at, which determines how loud it will sound comparedwith other song in particular setting on an amplifier” “It appeared to support long standing claims that the music industry is engaged in a "loudness war" in which volumes are gradually being increased.”

Pop in '90

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https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRE4K3Db7iMDdtTajL3BYisLJZziwEVgUYh7uamkSSvMqPVuy9CbA Title of the text: Pop in 90s: Everything for everyone Author: Eric Weisbard Title of publication: The New York Times                                                                                         URL/WEB Address:   www.nytimes.com/2000/04/30/arts/music-pop-in-the-90-s-everything-for-everyone.html Main idea: The 90s deserve to go down as the decade when the music industry opened its door to all comers. Open-mindedness, rather than any single sound, was its great contribution: a lesson in diversity. Evidences: “That for the first time in decades no one genre dominated. Rap and rhythm- and- blues make up a quarter of the names; country an eighth; alternative rock; old- school rock and middle-of-the-road pop about one- fifth each.” “The industry's mistake in overinflating alternative, informed by uts memories of classic rock, was to assume that